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The City has released several documents related to SDP-06-005, the Crown Farm Project. In the form of twenty-seven Acrobat PDF files, the documents cover many aspects of the proposed Crown Farm development, including design guidelines, materials, streets, landscaping, utilities, traffic calming, and affordable housing (MPDU) distribution. This SDP will be discussed in public hearing at the November 6, 2006 regular meeting of the Mayor & Council, in joint session with the Planning Commission; I’ve mentioned this upcoming meeting in a previous post.

While some of the documents — for example the natural resources inventory — cover the entire Crown Farm property, the documents which go into the greatest detail cover only neighborhoods two and three.

The current Gaithersburg edition of the Town Courier also had a brief article about the release of these documents.

Below are some images extracted from the online PDFs:

Articles of interest in the current issue of the Gaithersburg Town Courier:

• KCA Hires Engineer to Assess Flooding
  The KCA has hired Gardener James Engineering, Inc. to assess the flooding problems in Kentlands.
• City Wards Off New Tax for Now
  This is regarding the proposed Metropolitan District Tax. I’ll have a separate post on this later.
• Developers Debut Crown Farm Details
  This is also on my to-post-about list.
• Election coverage
  There are multiple articles on the upcoming KCA election, including candidate profiles. There is also a brief item about the upcoming, uncontested Lakelands election.
• City Council Endorses Day Laborer Site
• Gaithersburg Blogger Brings City Politics to the Web
• Editorial
  The Courier defends their news coverage and editorial content.
• Letters
  • Richard Arkin takes issue with the Courier’s coverage of the activation of the districting provision and questions the Courier’s impartiality.
  • Ann Strain expresses disappointment with the conduct of the September 27 KCA BOT meeting.

The Town Courier is available for free in stands at various locations in Kentlands, Lakelands and Quince Orchard Park. Most of their articles are not published on the Web.